Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Jesus’ Baptism by John in the Context of First-Century Judaism
Converts, Resisters, and Evangelists
Thecla and the Governor
“If It Looks like a Duck, and It Quaks like a Duck…"
Who Did What to Whom?
How Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Help Us to THink about Gender in Ancient Judaism?
The Sound of Angels’ Wings in Paradise
The Night Rabbi Aqiba Slept with Two Women
The Social Formations of Paul and His Romans
Fashioning Witnesses
“Entrusted with the Oracles of God”
Cultural Creativity in Egyptian Judaism
Women in Judaism and Christianity
Mothers, Martyrs, and Manly Courage
Susanna’s Choice
What Is Her Word Worth?
Optatus’s Account of Lucilla in Against the Donatists
Gender and Apocalypticism in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
“To the Most Honorable Lady, Theophile"
“This Poor Widow . . .”
Bayit versus Beit Midrash
In Her Own Words
Witnesses from Medieval Mediterranean Society
Miriam’s Well
The Shape-Shifting Bride
E.T. Phone Home
Her Share of the Cursings
Working Women?
Ungendering Andrea
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects